Thursday, September 15, 2005

Syrian Railways publishes timetables, routes on internet

Syrian railways has published details of its routes in a bid to increase traffic.

It's main Damascus-Homs-Hama-Aleppo line, as well as the branches to Lathqia and Al-Qamishli are shown. There are five daily journies between Damascus and Aleppo which takes 4 hours, costing as little as 57 Syrian Pounds (1 US Dollar). The journey by bus is three times more expensive.

Trains also run a weekly service to Tehran, Iran and Istanbul, Turkey. Incredibly, the journies cost just 75 Syrian Pounds (1 Dollar 50 cents). The trip to Tehran takes 3 days, and to Istanbul, you'll spend 6 days on the train.

The trip from Damascus to Istanbul takes only ONE Night leaving DAM in ther very early morning at 5:15 arriving in Instanbul next day late afternoon and the price is in Sleeper 76 Francs Swiss !!!!! not syrian pounds....!!

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